Squirrel poxvirus: Landscape scale strategies for managing disease threat

Biological Conservation

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 287-295

  Gurnell, J ^a   Rushton, S P ^b   Lurz, P W W ^b   Sainsbury, A W ^c   Nettleton, P ^d   Shirley, M D F ^b   Bruemmer, C ^e   Geddes, N ^f  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e English Nature   (United Kingdom)

^f Forest Enterprise   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation management; Pathogen mediated competition; Sciurus carolinesis; Sciurus vulgaris; Tree squirrels

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VIRAL DISEASE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

PICEA; POXVIRIDAE; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS VULGARIS; SQUIRREL PARAPOXVIRUS; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 33745063739     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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